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Routes of Atlantic Slave Voyages: Revised Framework and New Insights
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2019 This study explores data on the Atlantic slave trade through a revised framework, focusing not simply on voyages of individual slave ships but on aggregating them by route, linking an African region of departure with an American region of arrival.
Patrick Manning, Yu Liu
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De fragmentos a tramas: el cautiverio indígena y el archivo colonial en el Río de la Plata
Nuevo mundo - Mundos NuevosThis article addresses the forced displacement of Indigenous captives in the eighteenth-century Río de la Plata. Drawing upon two exemplary cases – three Abipón caciques from the Chaco who were imprisoned in Montevideo and a captive from the Pampas who ...
Jeffrey Erbig +2 more
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011 This paper deals with the problem of captives among the Abipones groups of Chaco during the 18th century. For the above-mentioned groups the practice of captive-taking was complex because it involved political, social, economic and symbolic aspects ...
Carina P. Lucaioli
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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2014 At the height of Roman imperialism, military victories brought in several millions of captives. Available figures show an increasing number of prisoners during the second half of the third century B.C. and until the first century B.C.
Jean-Christophe Robert
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Études Caribéennes, 2021 The transatlantic slave trade deported millions of captives across multiple and interregional trade routes. Central Africa has been the point of departure for captives from several sub-regions in the centre and east of the continent.
Arsène Francoeur Nganga
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Corramycin, a myxobacterial natural product antibiotic, exhibits potent bactericidal activity against multidrug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The compound hijacks bacterial transporters such as BacA and OppABCD to enter the cell and inhibits DNA synthesis through a previously unrecognized mode of DNA gyrase poisoning, locking the enzyme in an ...
Franziska Fries +25 more
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De Zoraida a Ana Félix, o la identidad cuestionada en el Quijote de Cervantes
Criticón, 2016 This article will examine Cervantes’ narrative strategies in a few episodes from Don Quixote (I, III), focusing on the pattern of “error” issued from the dialectical interplay between reality and imagination.
Odile Lasserre-Dempure
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EXECUTING WAR CAPTIVES BASED ON MASLAHAT: REFLECTING ON AND CONCLUDING THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE
UUM Journal of Legal Studies, 2023 The debate on whether war captives may be executed has been a debate among Islamic scholars since the classical era until today. Some say war captives may be executed based on maslahat, others say it is categorically impermissible.
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin
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A General and Efficient Framework for the Rapid Design of Miniaturized, Wideband, and High‐Bit RIS
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.A general and efficient framework is proposed for the rapid design of high‐performance reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). This framework integrates advanced antenna design techniques and incorporates various load types, quantities, and values to achieve the design of high‐performance RISs.
Jun Wei Zhang +14 more
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